Standup Guy

✍ Scribed by Stuart Woods

• Book ID: 110618939
• Publisher: Penguin
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-CA
• Weight: 355 KB
• Series: Stone Barrington Book 28
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780451466877
• ASIN: B00DGZKHQS

✦ Synopsis

Stone Barrington’s newest client brings mayhem in his wake in this “edge-of-your-seat adventure” in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.*

After giving some legal advice to a walk-in client, Stone Barrington thinks he’s done with the man. But several people are keenly interested in John Fratelli’s activities and how they relate to a long-ago crime...and some of them will stop at nothing to find the information they desire.

On a hunt that leads from Florida’s tropical beaches to the posh vacation homes of the Northeast, Stone finds himself walking a tightrope between ambitious authorities and seedy lowlifes who all have the same prize in their sights. In this cutthroat contest of wills, it’s winner-takes-all—and Stone will need every bit of his cunning and resourcefulness to be the last man standing.

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From Booklist

A hefty load of ill-gotten cash is at the heart of Stone Barrington’s problems in the latest entry in Woods’ (Doing Hard Time, 2013) long-running series. When ex-con John Fratelli pays Stone a visit seeking legal advice about the $2 million his cellmate bequeathed him, Stone helps Fratelli around some of the potential illegalities of the situation, given that the cash was obtained more than two decades ago in a robbery. Once Fratelli, grateful for the advice, takes off for Florida, Stone thinks he’s seen the last of him, and he never imagines that he’ll get wrapped up in a dogged pursuit of the money. But soon an ex-cop, the Secret Service, and a determined thug are questioning Stone about its whereabouts. The thug proves especially problematic, grabbing Stone’s latest paramour and holding her hostage for $5 million. Woods sets up a potentially interesting presidential bid that will presumably be explored in future installments, but this outing is fairly run-of-the-mill and predictable at times. And do we really need multiple scenes of Fratelli golfing with his girlfriend? --Kristine Huntley

Review

_Praise for Standup Guy _**

“Stuart Woods still owns an imagination that simply won’t quit.”—** Suspense Magazine_

“Polished...the liveliest Barrington novel in some time.”—_Publishers Weekly*

**More Praise for Stuart Woods
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“Stuart Woods is a no-nonsense, slam-bang storyteller.”— Chicago Tribune

“A world-class mystery writer...I try to put Woods’s books down and I can’t.”—*Houston Chronicle

*“Mr. Woods, like his characters, has an appealing way of making things nice and clear.”—The New York Times _
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“Woods certainly knows how to keep the pages turning.”— Booklist

**“Since 1981, readers have not been able to get their fill of Stuart Woods’ New York Times bestselling novels of suspense.”—Orlando Sentinel

“Woods’s Stone Barrington is a guilty pleasure...he’s also an addiction that’s harder to kick than heroin.”— Contra Costa Times (California)